Hacker News: snowram

New comment by snowram in "“Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server"

snowram — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 13:18:05 +0000

It reminds me of the US army and their fabulous idea to open a Twitch channel. Went as well as you expect.

New comment by snowram in "The quixotic team trying to build a world in a 20-year-old game"

snowram — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 14:10:47 +0000

Roblox commercialized that excitement. Kids now work directly for them and pretty much for free.

New comment by snowram in "Show HN: Wildex – Pokémon Go for real wildlife"

snowram — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 13:51:29 +0000

"No officer, I am just using this AR-15 as a walking stick. A gun is neutral isn't it?"

New comment by snowram in "Game Boy Advance Audio Interpolation"

snowram — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 09:36:23 +0000

Accuracy isn't always the point of video game emulators since gaming experience is a subjective thing. Most of old games were crippled by the limitations of the hardware their run on. Inaccuracies can very much improve the experience, like removing sprite limits, displaying wider aspect ratios or in this case improving sound interpolation.

New comment by snowram in "Claude's new constitution"

snowram — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:01:03 +0000

We just have to define what an "error" is first, good luck with that.

New comment by snowram in "JPEG XL Test Page"

snowram — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 17:46:56 +0000

Considering "jpeg" has become the shorthand for "digital picture", it would be a shame not to capitalise on it.

New comment by snowram in "Fire Shuts GTA 6 Developer Rockstar North, Following Report of Explosion"

snowram — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 15:16:25 +0000

GTA6 is most likely the most anticipated cultural product of all times. Unfortunately, sensationalization makes perfect sense from news websites perspective.

New comment by snowram in "Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11"

snowram — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 17:02:02 +0000

Multiple reasons : IA pushback, better gaming experience, Linux becoming more and more mainstream with distro like Bazzite and CachyOS.

New comment by snowram in "65% of Hacker News posts have negative sentiment, and they outperform"

snowram — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 16:51:52 +0000

Country specific subs aren't better either. They slowly changed from comfy places to talk about laid back topics to a full on brigaded cesspool where only the most polarizing opinion thrive.

New comment by snowram in "Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%"

snowram — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 09:46:49 +0000

Because ad blocking isn't provided by default in Firefox. It isn't as opinionated as Brave, for the better and the worse.

New comment by snowram in "Stardew Valley developer made a $125k donation to the FOSS C# framework MonoGame"

snowram — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 16:07:43 +0000

Those games are a grain of sand in the infinite desert that is the indie game world. The vast majority of indie games on Steam are barely even noticed by anyone.

New comment by snowram in "Xlibre is a fork of the Xorg Xserver with lots of code cleanups"

snowram — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 12:12:58 +0000

Huh huh, he could have just said "PRs are welcome" then. This is a window manager, no need to be weird by being this specific.

New comment by snowram in "Gaming on Linux has never been more approachable"

snowram — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 08:57:54 +0000

It is when those anticheats gatekeep the most popular PC games. For most gamers, they can't compromise on what they play and there is still a very large amount of potential games that would forbid a switch to another OS. See : https://areweanticheatyet.com/

New comment by snowram in "VLC's Jean-Baptiste Kempf Receives the European SFS Award 2025"

snowram — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 12:52:21 +0000

Thank god not every post has to look like a LinkedIn story.

New comment by snowram in "Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark"

snowram — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 19:54:29 +0000

You over estimate the will/knowledge of everyday people to do anything else than buy a branded PC, install Steam and be done with it.

New comment by snowram in "Show HN: Cobalt – a pixel-art painting studio for the Nintendo DS"

snowram — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 15:27:44 +0000

Little known fact, the original DS touch screen is pressure sensitive. I don't know of any games using this feature, but the Colors homebrew does use it! So the DS was a fairly convenient digital art machine for its time.

New comment by snowram in "Intel Arc Pro B50 GPU Launched at $349 for Compact Workstations"

snowram — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 08:46:29 +0000

I wonder why everyone keep saying "just put more VRAM" yet no cards seem to do that. If it is that easy to compete with Nvidia, why don't we already have those cards?

New comment by snowram in "Poisoning Well"

snowram — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 08:36:11 +0000

LLM can create new things, since their whole purpose is to interpolate concepts in a latent space. Unfortunately they are mostly used to regurgitate verbatim what they learned, see the whole AI Ghibli craze. Blame people and their narrow imagination.

New comment by snowram in "What is it like to be a bat?"

snowram — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 19:28:24 +0000

Wittgenstein famously said "If a lion could talk, we could not understand him". This subject is a philosophical fun rabbit hole to explore.

New comment by snowram in "The Minecraft Code (2024) [video]"

snowram — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 13:21:00 +0000

It is rather common in gaming to communities to find people completely obessed over ultra specific details of their favorite game. It isn't even the first time for Minecraft, see the "pack.png" case.